Doug Belshaw 🇪🇺☠️✊ @dajbelshaw@social.coop
Open Educational Thinkerer. I help people become more productive in their use of technology. Working with Moodle and We Are Open Co-op. https://dougbelshaw.com
I love this project: a riverbed in Amsterdam was drained and the ~700,000 found objects dating from the 1300s to present were photographed and presented online:
Reduce your costs, retain your focus
The link between sleep and creativity
If you know anyone working on an ActivityPub project and they need any advice/feedback/help or want to spread the word, tell them to DM me! I am more than willing to help or spread awareness! #activitypub #fediverse
Attention scarcity as an existential threat
I'm presenting with @mayel2b about #MoodleNet this morning at #MootES18. Here's the slides we're using:
Whether or not you're here in Barcelona, please free to ask questions (English/Spanish) as replies to this toot and we'll get back to you!
Our irresistible screens of splendour
Principles underpinning the MoodleNet project
Video by EFF, featuring @mala and Julia Reda, to discuss the #LinkTax and #CensorshipMachines proposals and what we can do to stop them:
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=wjqCT9Exq58
"Vote will most likely be 4th of July"
#article13 #article11 #uploadfilters #freespeech #humanrights
Just arrived in Barcelona, where I'll be until Friday evening. Here for the MoodleMoot, but may have some downtime if anyone's around in the Eixample area or thereabouts.
This book is such bollocks. I didn't like Ferguson when studying History at post-grad level at uni, I don't like him now.
One of his main contentions is that hierarchies are just a special form of network. This is only true if you fail to talk about power and subjugation, which he's (just) manage to skirt during the first half of the book.
I also don't like the way he puts forward his own opinions by quoting historical figures of dubious moral character. Silicon Valley types will lap this up.
Draft: How to implement a basic ActivityPub server
I guess if someone could give it a test run and tell me if they're struggling with something before I publish, would be great
@wion @remotenemesis well, I think there is a need for a place where people can post a long article without having a blog of their own. In as far as Medium was able to provide that, I liked it. But everything else on top of that was unnecessary. This BoingBoing post lists a few alternatives I like. https://boingboing.net/2017/03/14/minimalist-web-publishing-plat.html
Brutalist blogging platforms!!
Messing about with @disroot and impressed enough within 30 mins to have backed them on Patreon. Will up that to the $15/month amount if I shift over my personal email from Kolab.
Delighted to have found this in an Oxfam bookshop today! It's a follow-up to Morgan's classic 'Images of Organization' which talks about the importance of metaphor use in management and leadership.
Thanks all! Going to explore those two :)
Recommendations for a NextCloud host? It will just be me and one other person using it at first, and unlikely to scale to more than 10 people.
There's a list of providers here: https://nextcloud.com/providers/
(I know and trust Web Architects - who else is good and based in the EU?)
System architecture options for MoodleNet